"Welcome to the last football game of the year." said the announcer in a monotone voice. "Are you looking forward to winter break?"
"She seems excited." muttered Elsa under her breath. Nevertheless, she joined in as everyone shouted "Yes!"
"Great. So now without further ado, here are your football players."
Elsa cheered along with most everyone in the stands. She scanned the players, trying to spot Jason. After a few minutes, Elsa saw him, but he wasn't looking at her. Jason was blowing a kiss at one of the cheerleaders that Elsa recognized from school. Elsa's insides plummeted and promptly turned into soft jelly. He was flirting, Elsa was sure of that. She stood there, unsure what to feel. So she felt nothing. The Arendelle football team won, but Elsa hardly noticed. She only noticed the times Jason winked at the cheerleaders, the times Jason flexed his muscles for the cheerleaders, the times Jason waved flirtatiously at the cheerleaders. Before Elsa noticed anything, it was over. Time to talk to Jason.
"Where can I find Jason?" Elsa asked Anastasia.
"He'll be coming out of the locker rooms soon. They're over there." Anastasia pointed.
Elsa waited by the locker room, watching lots of sweaty boys exit, ecstatic over their victory. Her annoyance grew by the minute. Jason was the last one to come out. "Hey Elsa." he said. "What's up?"
"You kept flirting with the cheerleaders through the game." Elsa said shakily.
"What? Babe, that doesn't mean anything."
"It meant something to me."
"Don't get all worked up about it. I'm still your boyfriend, right?"
"Yeah…"
"Anyway." Jason said, changing the subject. "You look very pretty tonight."
And in that moment Elsa realized.
She realized the entire point of this painstakingly awful story that I have spent most of the past year writing.
"You only like me for my looks." Elsa mumbled.
"What did you say?" asked Jason.
"You only like me for my looks!" Elsa shouted. "That's the entire reason you dated me! Because I was pretty!"
"What? No, that's not it…"
"Yes, it is. All that pressure to be pretty and perfect and socialize with your friends and be something I'm not, that was all for my looks! You never actually wanted to date me. I bet you never even had feelings for me."
"That's not true!"
"Well you know what, I've had enough of your pressure to be pretty. We are over."
"What did you say?"
"I'm breaking up with you. Deal with it."
"You can't break up with me!"
"Well guess what, I just did. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a band concert to get ready for. Goodbye, Jason." Elsa walked away. When she was far enough away so that Jason couldn't see the tears on her cheeks, she turned around, but he had already left.
"Elsa?" Anna knocked on the door of her sister's room. It was the day after the football game and Elsa hadn't come out of her room since she had returned from the band concert.
"Go away." came the muffled response.
"Elsa, I know you're in there." Anna said. "Can you tell me what happened?"
Elsa sighed from behind the door. She knew Anna wouldn't stop asking until she received an answer. The elder sister unlocked the door and let Anna, who had been leaning against the door, fall into the room. Anna quickly straightened herself out and sat down on the bed, gesturing for Elsa to sit beside her. Elsa obliged.
"So…" Anna prompted.
Elsa took a deep breath. "I broke up with Jason." she said.
Anna gasped overdramatically. "Tell me more."
"Can you believe Jason was only dating Elsa for her looks?" Anna asked Hans. They were walking home together after school. Hans had wanted to come over to Anna's house to hang out a bit and she had agreed. It was Hans' idea to walk instead of riding the bus, so they could talk properly.
"Yeah." Hans responded. "Jason's always been after the girls he can convince to change for him. It kind of gives him a feeling of power, I think."
"Wow. That's slightly creepy. Not creepy I mean, just… weird. Well I'm glad Elsa dumped him."
"Yes. I'm very glad." Hans said.
They continued talking about random things until they were almost at Anna's house. Anna paused right before she was about to unlock the door. "Hans?"
"Yes, Anna?" Hans replied, confused as to why she wasn't unlocking the door.
"Um… Hans, I think I love you." Anna said. She smiled, expecting him to say he loved her too.
But that didn't happen. Hans' face was full of shock, but slowly it was replaced by something else. A sinister smirk. "Oh, Anna." he said, shaking his head at her. "If only there was someone out there who loved you."
Anna was shocked. "I-I thought you did?"
Hans stepped down from the porch. "Do you know the reason Jason wanted to date Elsa at all? It wasn't because she was pretty. It was because she was malleable."
"Hans?"
"Jason could shape Elsa into anything he wanted. She could have been the perfect girl. The one that everyone wanted to be or be with. And I wanted to be the person that shaped her."
"W-what are you talking about?"
"But Elsa wasn't interested in me, oh no. She was only interested in Jason. But you, you were willing to date me just like that!" Hans snapped his fingers, a grin spreading across his face as he realized how confused Anna was as she took this all in. "I was thinking, after we started dating, I could get close to Elsa. I could convince her that I was the one she really wanted. I could shape her into the perfect girl, and then we would be the perfect couple."
Hans stepped close to Anna so their noses were almost touching. "I never loved you." he said, watching in satisfaction as Anna's eyes showed her pain. "I never even liked you. But," Hans said, stepping back from Anna and towards the door of her house. "You've been a great help."
In one fluid motion, Hans unlocked the door with the keys he had swiped from Anna's pocket while she was distracted, and ran into the house. Before Anna had registered his action, he had shut and locked the door. Furious, Anna went and banged on the door, which was made of glass. She could see Hans behind it, smirking.
"You'll never get away with this!" she shouted through the door.
"I already have." Hans shouted back, and walked into the house, leaving Anna on the doorstep contemplating genocide. She banged on the glass a few more times and considered breaking it down (unfortunately she had nothing to break it with) before deciding to check the back door.
Meanwhile, Hans was searching inside the house for Elsa. He knew she was home because a backpack had been dumped in the front walkway that he didn't recognize as Anna's. He checked the living room and the kitchen before heading upstairs. The first few doors he tried were unlocked and opened to bedrooms and a bathroom. Hans headed across the landing and tried the last door, which, he discovered, was locked. So, Hans knocked.
He waited a few seconds before he heard the sound of a door being unlocked. The door swung open to reveal Elsa, who was very red around the eyes and sounded like she had a cold. "Oh, Hans." Elsa said, surprised to see her sister's boyfriend at her bedroom door. She looked around. "Where's Anna?" she asked.
"Oh, Anna's outside. She told me to go ahead. Can I come in?"
"Uh…" Elsa hesitated. "Sorry, no." She came outside and shut her bedroom door behind her. "So… Why are you here?"
"I heard you broke up with Jason recently."
Elsa sighed. "Yeah, he was a jerk. I just didn't see it at first."
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I'm recovering."
Well…" Hans grinned. "I know someone who's not a jerk that you might like."
"No thanks, I'm not-"
"Oh, but he's handsome too, and smart and funny; a real gentleman."
"Oh really?" Elsa crossed her arms and leaned against her door, half-smiling.
"Yeah. He has his own bicycle and enough money to take you to some pretty fancy places. I bet he'd be an awesome boyfriend."
"Uh huh. Sure. So who is this perfect boyfriend?" Elsa asked, using air quotes for 'perfect boyfriend.'
"Me." Hans said, puffing up his chest proudly.
Elsa was caught off guard and almost fell. She quickly stood up straight. "You?! But you're dating Anna!"
"Not anymore!" Hans said proudly. "So, how about it?"
"I don't know." Elsa said. Suddenly, her attention was caught by something over Hans' shoulder. "You're kind of young."
"What are you looking at?" Hans said, turning around, only to be met by a punch in the face. "Anna?" he said, clutching his jaw and glancing at the girl who was glaring daggers at him.
"Get out of my house." Anna said slowly and menacingly.
"Alright, alright." Hans put his hands up to show he wasn't going to do anything, and went down the stairs. Anna watched him go out the front door from the landing above.
"What happened?" Elsa asked, thoroughly confused.
"It's a long story, but basically Hans and I aren't together anymore."
A week later Anna and Elsa were riding the bus home together. At Anna's request, Hans had been moved to the front of the bus, far from where they now sat in the same seat. The news of Jason and Elsa's breakup had spread across the school like wildfire. The people in the front of the bus were back to glaring at Elsa, but the sweatpants-clad girl with messy hair pulled back into a messy braid found she didn't really care. She had friends that she hung out with before school in the media center, she had her sister, and she wasn't being pressured to be something that she didn't want to be.
"I'm having a sleepover on Friday, cause it's a Friday, and we always have sleepovers on Fridays. It's practically a tradition." Anna said.
"I totally haven't noticed your tradition for the past seven weeks that you've had sleepovers at our house on Friday."
Anna laughed. "It isn't at our house every Friday you know."
"Whatever." They rode for a few minutes in a comfortable silence until Anna had an idea.
"Hey Elsa, why don't you invite your friends to the sleepover?"
"Why not? That sounds like a good idea."
"Sure." More silence.
"Hey Anna?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think life is finally getting better?"
Anna though for a moment. "Yes, I think it is. I think it is."
So, I have officially completed this story! Yay! *throws confetti all over the place* :D
It only took three hours with my computer at three in the morning to write a 1,700 word finale chapter that i'm actually pretty proud of. I managed to tie up all the ends I wanted to, and for once it isn't terrible.
This is actually the first fanfiction I have ever written, and the first story that i've posted online and actually completed, so i'm very proud of myself.
I'm sure if I go back and read the first chapter of this fanfiction i'll cringe so much. It was awful, but i'm glad all you people stuck with me til the end, when it actually got good and I got way better at writing.
Who knows what will happen next. Maybe i'll write a sequel, maybe i'll write something for another fandom, who knows. I don't.
If you want me to write a sequel, tell me and I just might do it.
But for now, i'm signing out. Disneyandallthingsfrozen away! (I'm probably going to change my name at some point. Just saying)
-D&ATF :)
P.S. If any of you were wondering, the grand total of time this fanfiction encompassed is ten weeks. All of this I have written happened over ten weeks. Wow. :|